IRS Investigates Death Threats to Employees After Health Bill Approval

Fox News ^ | Updated March 30, 2010 | Jana Winter

[YoungHickey]

According to an IRS office memorandum outlining policy for the use of armed guards during the current tax season, the inspector general will provide armed escorts under the following conditions in April:

- "When an IRS employee has contact with a taxpayer who is the subject of an open TIGTA-OI assault or threat investigation; or

"When an IRS employee has contact with a taxpayer who has been designated as a Potentially Dangerous Taxpayer (PDT) by the IRS Office of Employee Protection."

The IRS’s office of criminal investigations will provide armed escort assistance in other situations, the memo said.

But this has served only to further rile anti-tax extremists, who view themselves as patriots and pledge to confront any armed IRS agent with guns of their own.

[YoungHickey]

Potentially Dangerous Taxpayer...

[Domandred]

All taxpayers should be “PDT”, and I’m sure they had plenty of threats before Obamacare passed.

[RobRoy]

>>Potentially Dangerous Taxpayer...<<

Who isn’t?

[muawiyah]

This is a laugh riot. The new IRS public health tax agents will be armed to the teeth and won't need body guards.

They're buying MAC-10 machinepistols for them as we speak.

Oh, yeah, they will arrive at your door in platoon strength.

[YoungHickey]

See I was thinking it should be Potentially Dangerous Non-Taxpayers... which is why they’re there.

[timetostand]

Potentially Dangerous Taxpayer...<<<<<

What happens when half of America become PDTs????

Personally I am seriously contemplating going permanately mobile!!

[SmokingJoe]

The IRS’s office of criminal investigations will provide armed escort assistance in other situations, the memo said

They are going to need a heck of a lot of them armed escorts if they try to impose the abominable, super hated 0bamcare bill. I really wouldn't like to be in their shoes.

[Man50D]

It wouldn’t be surprising if this is used an excuse to tie the tea party movement into the threats.

[exnavy]

We need to eliminate this branch of the gubmint in favor of a flat tax.

[YoungHickey]

Oh I’m sure... anything they can do to discredit it.

[Lurker]

Yawn. Wake me up when IRS employees are running for their lives from angry mobs by the hundreds.

Maybe then I'll be able to work up a sympathy fart or something.

[K-oneTexas]

IRS? Doesn’t rate the FBI? Is it something about a tax fraud?

Doesn’t make much sense. But then what does in Washington any more.

[Ben Mugged]

The SEIU thugs are the Storm Troopers and the IRS is the Gestapo. The Brown Shirts are the 0bama faithful.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

Maybe the IRS should study how the British government approached this problem with respect to its collectors appointed under the Stamp Act...

[Domandred]

Hrmmm good point!

[Noumenon]

They may well win the first few engagements...

[Cowman]

This is a laugh riot. The new IRS public health tax agents will be armed to the teeth and won't need body guards.

They're buying MAC-10 machinepistols for them as we speak.>P> Oh, yeah, they will arrive at your door in platoon strength.

But I'm sure they will recognize everyone's 4th amendment rights and get a warrant first [sarcasm off]

[a fool in paradise]

Must be more dangerous Austinites out there in small airplanes.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

OMG!....Here we go!

[Man50D]

We need to eliminate this branch of the gubmint in favor of a flat tax.

A flat tax on income keeps the IRS. We've already tried a flat tax on income and it has been a failure. It's our current income tax code. People were taxed 1% on their first $20,000 o income and 7% on income over $500,000 when the 16th Amendment was passed in 1913. hardly anyone (less than 1%) earned more than $500,000. This means more than 99% was taxed 1% making it a flat tax on income.

As we have seen that flat tax on income has evolved into the multi tiered, convoluted, increasingly intrusive mess we have today. Another flat income tax will only turn the clock back 97 years and return to what we have today only faster thanks to the thousands of lobbyists that didn't exist 1913.

The only way to break this cycle is to tax consumption and abolish the IRS via The Fair Tax Act(HR25/S296). Doing so will put and end to any intrusion into people's lives.